Chapter 31 - Microorganisms in Terrestrial Ecosystems Flashcards
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blank is the most diverse microbial habitat on earth
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soil
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soils are mixtures of difficult particles and support blank microbes
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a lot
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most of soil is made of blank
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air and water
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much of soil is made up of
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inorganic mineral matter
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small part of soil that is from decomposition and waste production
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organic matter
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most numerous microbes in soil
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prokaryotes, fungi
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most soil is blank soil
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mineral
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not as much of this kind of soil
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organic
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there is blank signaling between plants and microbes in symbiotic relationships
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molecular
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aerial surfaces of plants
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phyllosphere
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volume of soil around the root influenced by materials released from root
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rhizosphere
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surface of root
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rhizoplane
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sum of the microbial, geological and chemical process in the bi
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biogeochemical cycling
